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Alarm bug?
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Alarm bug?
I have my wind gust threshold set to 24mph, it's a windy day today and it has gone off a few times.
I was just glancing at my station and had a few gusts exceeding it but realised Cumulus wasn't sounding the alarm anymore, i closed it down and restarted it and it started working again.
Cumulus v1.9.4 (1068)
Cheers.
I was just glancing at my station and had a few gusts exceeding it but realised Cumulus wasn't sounding the alarm anymore, i closed it down and restarted it and it started working again.
Cumulus v1.9.4 (1068)
Cheers.
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Re: Alarm bug?
Do you mean just the alarm sound or the indicator on the main screen as well? Do you reset the alarm each time, or just leave it?
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Re: Alarm bug?
The actual sound, i don't touch anything else as i've never had a problem with it.steve wrote:Do you mean just the alarm sound or the indicator on the main screen as well? Do you reset the alarm each time, or just leave it?
I reckon i probably had maybe ten gusts over 24mph within half an hour, i thought my volume was down to begin with, so i just restarted Cumulus and voila! Back to normal!
Saying that, it's stopped again.
I clicked the red 'Gust' and it sounds the alarm again and goes back to red.
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Re: Alarm bug?
If the visual indicator was changing, then it would have been attempting to play the sound. It simply calls a the Windows 'playsound' function to do that. If that doesn't reliably work, there's nothing I can do about it, sorry.
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Re: Alarm bug?
If the label is red then the alarm is already active, so it's not going to play the sound again.Mapantz wrote:I clicked the red 'Gust' and it sounds the alarm again and goes back to red.
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Re: Alarm bug?
When you say 'Reset' the alarm each time, does clicking the red gust indicator reset it?steve wrote:If the visual indicator was changing, then it would have been attempting to play the sound. It simply calls a the Windows 'playsound' function to do that. If that doesn't reliably work, there's nothing I can do about it, sorry.
Just saw your above post, i click the red indicator but it just sounds the alarm again and anything over 24mph still doesn't go off.
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Re: Alarm bug?
Yes, as described in the help. If you reset an active alarm, it's almost certainly going to activate again immediately.Mapantz wrote:When you say 'Reset' the alarm each time, does clicking the red gust indicator reset it?
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Re: Alarm bug?
Ah ok, so basically i have to wait until the winds drop and the red indicator disappears?steve wrote:Yes, as described in the help. If you reset an active alarm, it's almost certainly going to activate again immediately.Mapantz wrote:When you say 'Reset' the alarm each time, does clicking the red gust indicator reset it?
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Re: Alarm bug?
Yes, it's already warned you that the gust value has exceeded your set figure. It won't warn you again unless it goes back down again and then subsequently exceeds your set figure again. This is how all of the alarms work.Mapantz wrote:Ah ok, so basically i have to wait until the winds drop and the red indicator disappears?
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Re: Alarm bug?
steve wrote:Yes, it's already warned you that the gust value has exceeded your set figure. It won't warn you again unless it goes back down again and then subsequently exceeds your set figure again. This is how all of the alarms work.Mapantz wrote:Ah ok, so basically i have to wait until the winds drop and the red indicator disappears?
That's cool.
I honestly didn't know, as it never used to happen? I'm guessing a change was made that i didn't know of?
All is good now i know though.
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Re: Alarm bug?
Ah - good point. Yes, I changed it in build 1067 so that the high gust alarm operates on the actual gust figure - the calculated 10-minute peak - rather than the "latest", as someone pointed out that it wasn't sensible to keep sounding the alarm when the latest reading was hovering around the configured setting.Mapantz wrote:I honestly didn't know, as it never used to happen? I'm guessing a change was made that i didn't know of?
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Re: Alarm bug?
Here's a thread about the change: https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9712
The other issue with the old system, as pointed out in that thread, was that you were unlikely to catch the alarm with the web tag in its activated state.
The other issue with the old system, as pointed out in that thread, was that you were unlikely to catch the alarm with the web tag in its activated state.
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